Friday, August 21, 2015

What in the world is wrong with North College Street?

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Street view, from Google Maps, of North College at Eighth Street, which tops the city's high-accident list This year's list of ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Cool 1945 map shows plenty of passenger rail into uptown Charlotte

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In the category of "Found while looking up other stuff" I came across this amazing map of 1945 Charlotte, and all the passenger a...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

A chat with the godfather of Charlotte's streetcar

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Driver Danny McQueen on Tuesday, awaiting a carload of dignitaries to launch Charlotte's streetcar. The historic replica streetcars...
Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Highways - loosening our collective belts

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The first vehicles drive down the final leg of I-485, June 5. Photo: Nancy Pierce Even as the national discussion turns toward whether ...
Monday, June 1, 2015

Another lesson from Caro: the importance of robust local news coverage

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One less obvious lesson of Robert Caro's The Power Broker (which I wrote about last week ) is about the value of old-fashioned, shoe-le...
Friday, May 29, 2015

More lanes in Houston, and longer traffic times

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Here's a great example to buttress the point I made earlier today, in " Highways, congestion and a power broker's lessons ....

Highways, congestion and a power broker's lessons

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Frontispiece of The Power Broker maps Moses' roads, bridges, parks and playgrounds.  The headline in this morning's newspaper c...